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Pages in category "All-Black cast Broadway shows" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Cook's Clorindy, or The Origin of the Cake Walk, an hour-long sketch that was the first all-black show to play in a prestigious Broadway house, Casino Theatre's Roof Garden. Cole's A Trip to Coontown was the first full-length New York musical comedy written, directed and performed exclusively by blacks. The approach of the two composers were ...
The Theater District is an internationally prominent tourist attraction in New York City. According to The Broadway League, shows on Broadway sold approximately US$1.54 billion worth of tickets in both the 2022–2023 and the 2023–2024 seasons. Both seasons featured theater attendance of approximately 12.3 million each.
When the Circle for Negro War Relief had developed a branch in New York City, New York, they also established a theater company named the Players' Guild. The Players' Guild had several performances during the 1920s at the local Harlem YMCA. One of these productions helped the actor Paul Robeson rise to stardom. After the Guild made the YMCA ...
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In a 2017-2018 report from the Asian American Performers Action Coalition, a staggering 86.8% of all Broadway and off-Broadway shows were from white playwrights and 87.1% of all directors were ...
While the theatre originally rented its space on 127th and East 125th Streets, [1] [11] Teer purchased the 8,000 square foot theatre in 1969 at 9 East 125th street. In 1982, the NBT expanded to a 64,000 square foot complex that housesd two theatres, classrooms, and an African and Nigerian art gallery.
Brittany Johnson became the first Black actress to play Glinda full-time on Broadway in 2022. In celebration of the show’s 20th anniversary in 2023, Johnson told ELLE.com that performing Glinda ...